Ticked

Collect stuff over UDP, show graphs.

Getting Started

1. grab node. http://nodejs.org/

    NODE_VERSION=v0.10.29
    curl -O http://nodejs.org/dist/${NODE_VERSION}/node-${NODE_VERSION}.tar.gz
    tar zxvf node-${NODE_VERSION}.tar.gz
    cd node-${NODE_VERSION}
    ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/opt/node-${NODE_VERSION}
    make -j8
    make install
    cd ..
   

   Of course, you want this to be the version you use.

    (cd ${HOME}/opt && rm -f node && ln -s node-${NODE_VERSION} node)
   

2. node path

    NODE_HOME=${HOME}/opt/node
    export PATH=$PATH:${NODE_HOME}/bin
   

3. install dependencies (be sure to be inside this directory)

    # Inside the ticked directory; installing locally
    npm install
   

4. start the ticked server.

    node ticked.js
   

5. send some data.

    ./sender.py
   

6. point a browser at the server. http://localhost:8080

Sending Data

UDP data is accepted. The message format is colon ':' separated. You can test from the command-line like:

# on mac
echo "toplevel:groovy" | nc -u -w 0 localhost 8025

# on linux
echo "toplevel:groovy" | nc -u -q 0 localhost 8025

Limitations

It sucks.